65th Cannes Film Festival “In competition” line-up leaked?

edit: There’s a certain amount of scepticism about this list’s legitimacy, with no official confirmation or denial coming from the powers that be in the Riviera. Feel free to take all this with a pinch of salt, but it just makes too much sense not to be the real thing. The official line-up announcement is still scheduled for April 19th.

edit 2: Justin Chang of Variety, a man has since tweeted that this is “obviously fake”. The internet at large is pointing the finger at the lack of Michael Haneke’s Amour and the “interesting” presence of the Monty Python documentary. Only a few weeks until we hear for sure, but there are always bizarre omissions and inclusions in their line-up, so this could be closer to the truth than you would initially suspect.

The entries were revealed on the official Cannes site and hastily removed (I feel for the web guy who will probably be sacked for the blunder), but not before being logged by the internet’s magical troops, in this case French blog blogdufestivaldecannes.com. You can read their story here (in French), but for now feast your eyes on the list of 24 films sure to have us all talking in six weeks time…

Amazing to see Xavier Dolan in there. The Quebec native is 23 years old and is in illustrious company. Also catching our eye is The Place Beyond the Pines, Ryan Gosling and Derek Cianfrance’s follow-up to our 2010 film of the year Blue Valentine. Add in Cronenberg, a new Malick (they’re like buses they are) and P.T. Anderson’s follow-up to There Will Be Blood and it’s sure to be a great fortnight.

I’ll admit it – when I saw Roy Andersson AND PT Anderson’s names on there….I came.

devincf

There’s one film in that line up that I know will not be at Cannes, so the whole thing is a fake.

Wheatln2

Care to share which one stands out as the phoney one?

Evilbeievel

I think this a reasonably plausible provisional list of some of the films screening in the Lumiere.

- Moonrise Kingdom is listed as ‘Hors Competition’, so this isn’t just a list of In Competition titles.
- The Python doc is very unlikely to be in competition, probably a Special Screening.
- The Malick seems too good to be true, but not hard to believe they’ve seen a work print. It may yet be pulled, ala. Tree of Life in 2010.
- Overall, there are too many (6!) North American films on this list, the one thing that leads me to question its credibility. But then if this is a mix of In and Out of Competition selections, and if, say, the Cianfrance is a back-up in case Malick withdraws, then the list is plausible.